Mary Kalantzis, an Australian, has been involved in experimental social education and literacy curriculum projects, and is particularly interested in citizenship education.
Gunther Kress, from Great Britain, is best known for his work on language and learning, semiotics, visual literacy, and the multimodal literacies that are increasingly iportant to all communication, particularly the mass media.
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Courtney Cazden
- influential career working on classroom discourse, on language learning in multilingual contexts, and on literacy pedagogy
Bill Cope- wrote curricula addressing cultural diversity in schools
- researched literacy pedagogy and the changing cultures and discourses of workplaces
Norman Fairclough- theorist of language and social meaning
- linguistic and discursive change in relation to social and cultural change
James Gee- researcher and theorist on language and mind
- language and learning demands on "fast capitalist" workplaces
Allan Luke,- a researcher and theorist of critical literacy who has brought sociological analysis to bear on the teaching of reading and writing
Carmen LukeMary Kalantzis, an Australian, has been involved in experimental social education and literacy curriculum projects, and is particularly interested in citizenship education.
Gunther Kress, from Great Britain, is best known for his work on language and learning, semiotics, visual literacy, and the multimodal literacies that are increasingly iportant to all communication, particularly the mass media.
Martin Nakata
- researched and wrote on the issue of literacy in indigenous communities
Sarah Michaels